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SWEDEN-PROFILING: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

03 October 2013

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The Committee expressed concern at the apparent discrepancy between the number of arrests and the number of convictions under the Swedish Terrorism Act, which gives rise to concerns about unwarranted arrests due to racial profiling.

See the full text: Concluding observations on the combined nineteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of Sweden, adopted by the Committee at its eighty-third session (12–30 August 2013)

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